A hilarious video taken by a fellow guest on Monday shows the morning rush when the pool officially opened at 8am.

In many cases they lay their towels down and head into breakfast before returning at their leisure at the four-star Servatur Waikik in the popular resort of Playa del Ingles.

Hotel insiders revealed the worst offenders were the British and Irish – and insisted Germans who have traditionally been stereotyped as the first to get their towels down are much more likely to have breakfast first and look for a subbed afterwards.

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The problem of sunbed bagging has got so bad, hotel staff have now been instructed to remove towels from loungers left empty for two or three hours.

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One well-placed source at the hotel, where an estimated seven out of 10 guests are currently British, said: ‘The worst are definitely the Brits followed by the Irish and then some Canarians who are on holiday here and appear to have started to become infected by their behaviour.

‘We get guests laying their towels out in the morning and sometimes disappearing again till the afternoon.

(Picture: Gerard Couzens/Solarpix)

‘The problem has been getting so bad recently that hotel staff are now under instructions to remove towels on sunbeds which have been unattended for two or three hours.’

Another insider added: ‘Guests need to try to understand that rather than bagging the best sunbeds, all they’re going to achieve if they carry on racing around the way they do in the mornings is an accident.’